Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

- Plato

Best Quotes about Love

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

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Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

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If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

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We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

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Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

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People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

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If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

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Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

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You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

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Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

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We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

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The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

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My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

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Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

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You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya